Best Brownies Mishap

[cimorene]

I accidentally baked a tray of brownies with 1 tsp instead of 1/4 tsp of salt today!

These are surprisingly way less horrible than the time I made a cake with, what was it, like 2½ times the amount of sugar? (There was a converting-from-imperial-to-metric-by-hand confusion, a doubling-the-recipe-or-not confusion, AND accidentally using hot cocoa powder - sweetened - instead of baking cocoa powder.)

Like, they're not disgusting, but they're... palpably too salty. You know at once that this isn't some kind of weird chef idea, but a mistake, because it's just too weird with this amount of salt otherwise.

As you're eating it the salt keeps reminding you of itself, again and again.

Really, they taste like a joke. I've never eaten anything that tastes like a joke before. But these brownies do. They taste like they're taking the piss. Probably pointing and laughing at you as you're chewing.

Comments

[goss]

I've never eaten anything that tastes like a joke before. But these brownies do

Heh. I recently had some yoghurt that was "salted caramel" flavour, and that was exactly my feeling while eating it. :b

[cimorene]

Ooooooh, good call! I haven't had that, but it sounds suspicious and plausible.

[bonibaru]

Do you watch Ted Lasso? He did that to biscuits, so when I read this all I could think was, "She's a sneaky, salty bitch" lol.

[cimorene]

I thought he replaced sugar with salt? I hope he only did this instead; I think replacing the sugar in shortbread would make them nearly impossible to choke down!